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Creative Inspiration from Behance IV

Creative Inspiration from Behance IV

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

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Sci-Fi Style Clothing of The Future

Sci-Fi Style Clothing of The Future

The Science: [So what? So everything] campaign has released a list of 25 of the most influential fashion innovations of past, present and future.

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Jobs We Love on PSFK

Jobs We Love on PSFK

Below is one of the great jobs currently listed on the PSFK Jobs site. In need of more options? See what’s out there. If you’re looking for talent, submit a job post.

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Performing the Longest Musical Composition Ever Written

Performing the Longest Musical Composition Ever Written

For the first time ever, Jem Finer will be leading a live performance of a 1,000 minute section of his 1,000 year-long ‘Longplayer’ at London’s Roundhouse Theatre.

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Pop Up Ad Agency Helps Small Businesses

Pop Up Ad Agency Helps Small Businesses

London based RKCR/Y&R offered its creative and strategic services to local small businesses in a pop up ad agency for a week.

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(Pic) London Bus Carries 16 CCTV Cameras

(Pic) London Bus Carries 16 CCTV Cameras

The photo contains a screen broadcasting footage from the 16 camera installed on the bus. At some point you have to wonder…

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UK Supermarket Chain to Exclusively Sell Locally-Sourced Dairy

UK Supermarket Chain to Exclusively Sell Locally-Sourced Dairy

In a move that aligns well with the supermarket push to place more of their in-house brands on their shelves, while at the same time keeping pace with consumer demand for locally-sourced products, UK Grocery Store chain Waitrose has announced that it will only sell milk and other dairy products that come from British cows. The products will be sold exclusively under the Essential Waitrose label, a further commitment to their network of 60 British dairy farms, a partnership now in its tenth year that ensures fair prices and best practices.
The store’s website explains their dairy standards, purportedly the highest [...]

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The UK’s (Secret) Plot to Encourage Consumers to Go Green

The UK's (Secret) Plot to Encourage Consumers to Go Green

Back in July we came across the results of a study on consumer behavior as it related to “going green”. The research concluded that people are more motivated to make eco-friendly purchases based on perceptions about status – i.e. installing these solar panels are sure to make my neighbors envious – than they are by other factors, like cost-savings or more surprisingly perhaps, actually benefitting the environment.

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1 Crime Solved For Every 1,000 CCTV Cameras

1 Crime Solved For Every 1,000 CCTV Cameras

Image credit: Getty Images, Richard Newstead/Flickr
While the British government has spent an estimated £500m on CCTV cameras there continues to be both doubts over their effectiveness and concerns for their social impact. There are over a million cameras in the UK but the BBC says that an internal police report says they rarely help British authorities catch criminals:
In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers [in London]. David Davis MP, the former shadow home secretary, said: “It should provoke a long overdue rethink on where the crime prevention budget is being spent.”
He added: “CCTV leads [...]

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Heathrow Airport’s Driverless Taxis

Heathrow Airport's Driverless Taxis

Heathrow Airport is rolling out the UK’s first ULTra – Urban Light Transport – Personal Pod cars.  First announced two years ago, this energy-efficient, battery powered and fully automated system can be summoned on demand and will transport up to four passengers and their luggage between Heathrow’s Terminal 5 and its business car parks – sans driver.  They will run up to 25mph on a special road network.  Energy efficient and attractive, we expect to see more applications for this technology as a transportation solution in urban metropolitan areas.
[via BoingBoing Gadgets]

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Pubs Become Delivery Centers

Pubs Become Delivery Centers

British brewery and pub chain Scottish & Newcastle are testing a scheme with the British post office that will see pubs used as delivery centers. The UseYourLocal service lets packages get redirected when the Post Office can’t deliver. It’s part of a scheme that aims to out the pub back into the community by offering more relevant services than keeping 17 year olds occupied on a Friday night. Springwise reports that about 500 pubs have joined the scheme.
Use Your Local

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Heinz Looks At Alternative Retail

Heinz Looks At Alternative Retail

Looking to reduce its reliance on supermarket chains and their own-label product ranges, Heinz in the UK has been exploring new ways to sell its products.

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Tesco To Start Renting Out Urban Farms

Tesco To Start Renting Out Urban Farms

For a new store development grocery retailer Tesco plans to rent 30 ‘allotments’ for part time gardeners to locals in Lancashire in the UK. In tandem with an interest in grow-your-own-food PSFK has noticed around the world, there has been a recent boom in interest in allotments in the UK (see our interview with an allotment ‘owner’ here). The store will also sell starter kits to the renters, the Daily Telegraph reports.

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New Summer Rituals

New Summer Rituals

Urban beach going, sneezing and tombstoning are part of new summer rituals developing in Britain, the BBC reports in a slightly quirky article.

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Entrepreneur Numbers Point To Change In Work, Not Economy

Entrepreneur Numbers Point To Change In Work, Not Economy

The Daily Telegraph has explored a report by the UK’s Barclay Bank which indicates surprise that the number of small businesses in the UK has remained fairly steady during the recession. They say that unlike [...]

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